2023-10-13 05:17:00
Several official sites were the subject of an online attack late Thursday afternoon. Hackers notably attacked the Royal Palace, the Prime Minister and the Senate.
This cyberattack was claimed by a group of hackers, known by the nickname “NoName057”. In a message published on the social network Télégram, the pro-Russian group states: “We come to Belgium to destroy Russophobic portals. The Belgian authorities promised to send several F-16s to Ukraine. They announced that they would give 1.7 billion euros to Ukrainian neo-Nazis. History always punishes those who do not want to learn from their mistakes.”
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This comes 24 hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Belgium. The general director of the Belgian cybersecurity center, Miguel De Bruycker, confirmed this cyberattack to us this Friday morning. “We see in fact that every time there is a rather political, geopolitical event, there is this type of attack which increases. Each time, for a day or several days, we must follow all this carefully. what is happening and take appropriate measures. It comes up regularly.”he said.
A DDoS attack means that a large number of computers connected to the websites at the same time, so much so that they became inaccessible. No sensitive data was collected. And these websites are now searchable again. But this type of cyberattack is ultimately quite recurrent.
“They have been recurring since well before the war in Ukraine. They are relatively simple to mount. There has probably been an increase in these attacks, but it is not new,” underlines Laurent Mathy, professor of cybersecurity and computer systems at the University of Liège.
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